Harry Truman actually said...

This country is built upon principles which we have inherited from the British people--our love of liberty, our system of justice which is based upon the English common law, our language-these and many other things give us a strong feeling of kinship.

Context

Remarks in Response to the Presentation by Princess Elizabeth of an Overmantel for the White House.

11/01/1951

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